A high-speed chase by police. A 17-year old Crow boy is dead. What is the police report? The police report is nowhere to be found The entire police force? Vanished. What happened to Braven? After the Crash is a new short film by Samantha Michaels, a reporter, and filmmaker. It’s about the search for answers.
A high-speed police chase. A 17-year-old Crow boy, useless. The police report? Somewhere to be found. The whole police department? Vanished. What happened to Braven Glenn, and what remains to be seen is agonizing? Our searing fresh little film, starring filmmaker Mark Helenowski and reporter Samantha Michaels, is about the search for answers. Blossom Old Bull was raising her son Braven, a diligent student and impassioned basketballer, in the Crow Nation in Montana. On a black, chilly night in November 2020, a police pursuit began while Braven was driving to meet his girlfriend. Blossom was informed that her son was speeding and colliding with a train, but she had no additional information. Despite his cries for help, witnesses say they did n’t see law enforcement offer him medical assistance. He did n’t survive. Within days, the police department that pursued Braven shuttered, leaving behind no answers, merely taped-up windows and locked doors. The force was formed to increase law enforcement presence on the reservation, but by the time of Braven’s death, after only five months in operation, it was also under-resourced. The sudden disappearance immediately after a fatal chase left Braven’s family and community searching for answers—a acquainted agony because official silence after deaths and disappearances on Native reservations is terribly routine. And it speaks to the national government’s more than century-long practice of severely underfunding public safety and law enforcement on reservations, while also under-investing in ethnic health care, education, housing, and infrastructure. Read the whole investigation—the cover story of our March/April 2024 print magazine—here.
A high-speed police chase. A 17-year-old Crow boy, useless. The police report? Nothing to be found. The whole police department? Vanished. What happened to Braven Glenn, and what remains to be seen is agonizing? Our hearty fresh short film, produced by filmmakers Samantha Michaels and filmmaker Sami Michaels, explores the search for answers.
A high-speed chase by police. A 17-year old Crow boy is dead. What is the police report? The police report is nowhere to be found The entire police force? Vanished. What happened to Braven? After the Crash is a new short film by Samantha Michaels, a reporter, and filmmaker. It’s about the search for answers.
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